Global warming requires a changeover from fossil fuel based to renewable energy sources on the electrical supply side and electrification of demand side. Due transient nature renewables fluctuating demand, buffer capacities are necessary compensate for supply/demand imbalances. Battery storage systems promising. However, initial costs high. Repurposing electric vehicle batteries can reduce cost...

In this paper we consider D-optimal and highly D-efficient chemical balance weighing designs. The errors are assumed to be equally non-negatively correlated and to have equal variances. Some necessary and sufficient conditions under which a design is D*-optimal design (regular D-optimal design) are proved. It is also shown that in many cases D*-optimal design does not exist. In many of those ca...

Currently nZEB design represents a negotiation between energy targets and economic concerns. Whereby, it is indispensable that, staring from very preliminary phase of the project, a synergy between the building and system designers, the energy consultant and the economic valuer is set up. Cost-optimal methodology together with statistical analyses developed with Minitab software was applied to ...

This paper addresses the optimal design and planning of biomass-to-liquids (BTL) supply chains under economic and environmental criteria. The supply chain consists of multisite distributed-centralized BTL processing networks. The economic objective is measured by the total annualized cost, and the measure of environmental performance is the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. A bi-criterion, m...

This paper considers a moral hazard model with agent limited liability. Prior to interacting the principal, designs production technology, which is specification of his cost generating each output distribution. After observing principal offers payment scheme and then chooses distribution over outputs. We show that there an optimal design involving only binary distributions (i.e., any other proh...

abstract. in recent years several studies have shown that  control charts with adaptive schemes or double sampling plans detect both small and moderate shifts in the process mean more quickly than the traditional shewhart  chart. in the classical double sampling  chart, the difference between two points were placed in the central region of first stage was not considered. in this study, a new co...